how do you stop a plague?

[Kimball]

Do you have to build a ship with a med bay like in SE III or is there a facility, such a Medical Lab (if you have organic)?

[Dracus]

You have to build a ship, or you can let all the pop die and then repopulate the planet. It seems that in SEIII the plague stayed with the planet until cured so all new population would still die, but in SEIV it seems that the plague dies after all the population dies.
Had this happen as a radom event and by the time I got my ship built, the planet was dead. So I dropped some more people and they were fine. DID not need to use the med ship at all. So I never build them any more. I just let the people die and pull more from a over populated planet.

[Suicide Junkie]

If you have a med facil in the system, plagues are stopped right away (but only up to level 3s)

A medical component is available for ships and activates automatically whenever it enters a sector with a plague. Get it under medical tech, under biology.

[Kimball]

Thanks, guys.

[mottlee]

quote:

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Originally posted by Dracus:
You have to build a ship, or you can let all the pop die and then repopulate the planet. It seems that in SEIII the plague stayed with the planet until cured so all new population would still die, but in SEIV it seems that the plague dies after all the population dies.
Had this happen as a radom event and by the time I got my ship built, the planet was dead. So I dropped some more people and they were fine. DID not need to use the med ship at all. So I never build them any more. I just let the people die and pull more from a over populated planet.

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You will wait a long time if you have 8000K on one


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"Kill em all let God sort em out"

[mottlee]

COOL SGT NOW!!!!!

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"Kill em all let God sort em out"

[CaptSpoogy]

This is my suggestion:

I stole the concept of an "organics reclaimation centre" from someone on the board. It affects the population growth negatively, so the population decreases and generates organics. Construct this facility and convert all the population to organics. Now re-populate the world. Why let everyone die a horrible, horrible plague death - when you can let everyone die a horrible, horrible death and get organics out of it?

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[Taqwus]

Ewwwwwwww. ;-)

A couple of notes.

* A ship with a Medical Bay of sufficient level (Level Foo cures plagues of Level Foo or below, Foo within [1,5]) cures the plague as soon as the ship arrives.

* A Medical Lab of sufficient level (only [1,3]), OTOH, at least used to cure only *after* plague damage was assessed for that turn. This might have changed in a patch, 'tho.

* Medical bays are small and not terribly expensive. It might make sense to put them on your pop transports, since those are fairly likely to be well-distributed within your empire.

* For that matter, if you're being nasty, you can put both a Plague Bomb and a Medical Bay on the same CA, so that you can cure infected planets ASAP if the owner surrenders.

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[Suicide Junkie]

quote:

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I stole the concept of an "organics reclaimation centre" from someone on the board

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That "someone" was me again. See this thread for details & a discussion of stories & movies about the subject.